I want to look at design from an African perspective,” he says. “The problems facing people in Africa cut across state boundaries. In Nigeria for example, with a population of just over 155 million, the problems and experiences of the 105 million who live below the poverty line are not very different from those of about 10 million people (or approximately 30 per cent of the population) in Ghana, and 25 million (or 50 percent of the population) in South Africa who live in poverty. Our problems are …